Tuesday, 5 July

16:00-17:00Registration

17.00-17.30Opening Remarks

Dr. Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, Institute for Literature and Arts, BelgradeDr. Katja Šmid, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Bojan Jović, Director of Institute for Literature and Arts, BelgradeDr. Ruben Fuks, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia

Representative of the Belgrade Jewish Community

S ession 117.30-19.00

Chair: Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, Institute for Literature and Arts, BelgradeHarriet Pass Freidenreich, Temple University, Philadelphia (USA)

Sisters and Strangers: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Women in the Western BalkansMilan Koljanin, Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade (Serbia)

New Patriotism or “Yugoslavisation” of the Jews in Yugoslavia (1918-1941) Jasmina Huber, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (Germany)

Ashkenazi and Sephardic Elements of Music in the Shabbat Services in the Synagogue of Belgrade

19.00-20.00 Movie: Belgrade Synagogues20.00 Dinner

Wednesday, 6 July

S ession 29.30-11.00

Chair: Rudolf Klein, Szent Istvan University, BudapestJanez Premk, Jewish Archive of Slovenia

Encounters of the Medieval Jewish Exiles from Slovenia with Sepharad in the “Eastern Adriatic”Matthew Dudley, Yale University (USA)

Contextualizing Ladino Merchants’ Documents from Early Modern RagusaZsuzsanna Toronyi, Jewish Museum Budapest (Hungary)

“And the pomegranates bud forth?” - The Stories behind a Ceremonial Object Preserved in the Hungarian Jewish Museum

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

S ession 311.30-13.00

Chair: Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Temple University, PhiladelphiaMartin Stechauner, University of Vienna (Austria)

Vienna: A Cultural Contact Zone Transforming Sephardic Jewry on the BalkansKrinka Vidaković-Petrov, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade (Serbia)

A Tale of Three Towns: Belgrade, Zemun, PančevoGabi Abramac, Independent Researcher, Zagreb (Croatia)

The “Sephardi” Hasidim of Senta, Yugoslavia13.00-14.30 Lunch

S ession 414.30-16.00

Chair: Dina Katan Ben-Zion, Independent ResearcherAlexandra Twardowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun (Poland)

In Search of Common Identity? Collaboration of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews within Cultural and Political Organisations in Bosnia until 1941

Miloš Damjanović, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica (Serbia) Sephardim and Askenazim in Kosovo and Metohija between

the Two World Wars (1918-1941) – Parallel CoexistenceSofija Grandakovska, Independent Researcher, Skopje (Macedonia)

Jews in Ottoman Macedonia: When the Messianic Idea of Zion Meets Secularism16.00-16.30 Coffee break

S ession 516.30-18.30

Chair: David M. Bunis, The Hebrew University of JerusalemKatja Šmid, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

The Ashkenazim in Ladino Works Written by Ya’acov Moshe Hay AltaratsSimona Delić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb (Croatia)

Golden Age Ballad in ZagrebRudolf Klein, Szent Istvan University, Budapest (Hungary)

The Convergence of Sephardi and Ashkenazi Funerary Art on the Balkans in the 19th and 20th CenturiesVuk Dautović, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

Influence and Adoption of Central European Ashkenaz Funerary Monument Forms in the Belgrade Sepharad Community’s Cemetery Space in the End of 19th and the Beginning of 20th Century

18.30-19.30 Movie Jewish Cemeteries20.00 Dinner

Thursday, 7 JulyS ession 69.00-10.30

Chair: Katja Šmid, The Hebrew University of JerusalemIvana Vučina-Simović, University of Kragujevac and Jelena Filipović, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

Sephardim and Ashkenazim in the Belgrade Linguistic LandscapeDavid M. Bunis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

Ashkenazi Literature in Judezmo Translation, Sephardic Literature in Yiddish Translation: Some Sociolinguistic Notes

Michael Studemund Halévy, Institute for the History of the Jews in Germany, Hamburg (Germany) Writing in Tongues: Translating into Judezmo or What it Means to Translate in a Minority Language

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

S ession 711.00-12.30

Chair: Ivana Vučina-Simović, University of KragujevacŽeljko Jovanović, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Julie Scolnik, Independent Researcher,

San Francisco (USA) The Spicy Side of Jewish Humour: Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Tales of Sex and Scatology

Dina Katan Ben-Zion, Independent Researcher (Israel) Sepharad and Ashkenaz in the “Golden Era” of Jewish Literature in Former Yugoslavia – Insights

and Perspectives in View of a Personal ExperienceTsippy Levine Byron, Independent Researcher (Israel)

Elements of Sefardi/Ashkenazi Traditions in the Works of Natalia Ginzburg and David Albahari

12:30- 13:00 Coffee break

S ession 813:00-14:00

Chair: Milan Koljanin, Institute for Contemporary History, BelgradeNenad Makuljević, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

Jewish Identity in the Oeuvre of Leon KojenMilan Milovanović, Independent Researcher, Belgrade (Serbia)

Jews and the Belgrade Music Scene (1910-1941)

14:00-15.30 Lunch

15.30-17.30Regional Network of Jewish Studies: Discussion

Maria Fragkou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)Benedetto Ligorio, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome (Italy)

Irina Ognyanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)Jonna Rock, Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)

Jolanta Sujecka, University of Warsaw (Poland)Melita Švob, Research and Documentation Centre CENDO, Zagreb (Croatia)

17:30-18:30Visit to the Jewish Historical Museum

19.30 Dinner